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Hater Depot
Joined: 29 Mar 2005
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 Posted: Wed May 10, 2006 8:32 am Post subject: Poll Gives Bush His Worst Marks Yet |
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Americans have a bleaker view of the country's direction than at any time in more than two decades, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News poll. Sharp disapproval of President Bush's handling of gasoline prices has combined with intensified unhappiness about Iraq to create a grim political environment for the White House and Congressional Republicans.
Mr. Bush's approval ratings for his management of foreign policy, Iraq and the economy have fallen to the lowest levels of his presidency. He drew poor marks on the issues that have been at the top of the national agenda in recent months, in particular immigration and gasoline prices.
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Mr. Bush's political strength continues to dissipate. About two-thirds of poll respondents said he did not share their priorities, up from just over half right before his re-election in 2004. About two-thirds said the country was in worse shape than it was when he became president six years ago. Forty-two percent of respondents said they considered Mr. Bush a strong leader, a drop of 11 points since January.
Mr. Bush's overall job approval rating hit another new low, 31 percent, tying the low point of his father in July 1992, four months before the elder Mr. Bush lost his bid for a second term to Bill Clinton. That is the third lowest approval rating of any president in 50 years; only Richard M. Nixon and Jimmy Carter were viewed less favorably.
Mr. Bush is even losing support from what has been his base: 51 percent of conservatives and 69 percent of Republicans approve of the way Mr. Bush is handling his job. In both cases, those figures are a substantial drop in support from four months ago.
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Americans said Democrats would do a better job dealing with Iraq, gasoline prices, immigration, taxes, prescription drug prices and civil liberties.
Fifty percent said Democrats came closer than Republicans to sharing their moral values, compared with 37 percent who said Republicans shared their values. A majority said Republican members of Congress were more likely to be financially corrupt than Democratic members of Congress, suggesting that Democrats may be making headway in their efforts to portray Republicans as having created a "culture of corruption" in Washington.
By better than two to one, Democrats were seen as having more new ideas than Republicans. And half of respondents, the highest number yet, said it was better when different parties controlled the two branches of Congress, reflecting one of the major arguments being laid out by Congressional Democrats in their bid to win back the House or the Senate.
Americans said that Republicans would be better at maintaining a stronger military than Democrats. But the Republicans had only a slight edge on combating terrorism, an issue that has helped account for the party's political dominance since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. |
I still predict miserable failure for Democrats in the upcoming elections. They are truly that incompetent at getting elected. The electoral college doesn't help either. |
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Kuros
Joined: 27 Apr 2004
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| Posted: Fri May 12, 2006 4:04 am Post subject: |
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| I still predict miserable failure for Democrats in the upcoming elections. They are truly that incompetent at getting elected. The electoral college doesn't help either. |
I agree with you, although I would say its the gerrymandering that will hurt the Democrats more. Which is to say that while both sides have been gerrymandering, its very hard to turnover seats to either side of the aisle, and the Democrats need to turnover seats to win. |
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bucheon bum
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Fri May 12, 2006 12:38 pm Post subject: |
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| yeah, the democrats will still blow it. They're pros at losing elections. |
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Bulsajo
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Fri May 12, 2006 1:00 pm Post subject: |
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How did it get so bad?
They held Bush Sr. to just one term, and Clinton won his second term... was Clinton really that exceptional?
Maybe it's that after Watergate and again after Bush Sr's defeat they Republicans re-invented and re-invigorated themselves?
Is that impossible for Democrats to do? |
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Established in 1994
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| Posted: Fri May 12, 2006 2:54 pm Post subject: |
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How did it get so bad?
They held Bush Sr. to just one term, and Clinton won his second term... was Clinton really that exceptional?
Maybe it's that after Watergate and again after Bush Sr's defeat they Republicans re-invented and re-invigorated themselves?
Is that impossible for Democrats to do? |
Good question. Some of the answer:
FDR's governing coalition was put together in 1932 and held solid until 1968. During those decades most of the liberal agenda was legislated into law, and step by step offended more and more conserveratives. In those years, there were no Republicans south of the Mason-Dixon Line--Republicans were the party of Lincoln and the Civil War. It isn't much of an exaggeration to say that today the only Democrats in the South are black.
Starting in '68 (Nixon) the coalition broke apart and a the GOP put together a new dominant coalition. Reagan added the major idea of reducing taxes as a way of reducing federal power. If government is broke it can't be a big spender--except on defense. It has become pretty common for people be extremely skeptical of government.
Bush I lost because he caved on taxes and lost a lot of trust and support from the right, then Perrot entered the race and took enough votes away to let Clinton through the gate. Clinton did not consistently govern as a liberal. Two of his most important achievements were welfare reform (a conservative idea) and fiscal conservatism.
Democrats can and will, someday, reinvent themselves. To do it, they will have to find a new agenda. It isn't enough to just defend the programs enacted in the past. It isn't enough to be NotRepublicans. |
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Hater Depot
Joined: 29 Mar 2005
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| Posted: Fri May 12, 2006 7:09 pm Post subject: |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Strategy
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In American politics, the Southern strategy refers to the focus of the Republican party on winning U.S. Presidential elections by securing the electoral votes of the U.S. Southern states, supposedly by making racial appeals to southerners. The phrase Southern strategy itself, was invented by Nixon strategist Kevin Phillips. For the years of 1948 to 1984, the southern states, traditionally a stronghold for the Democratic Party became key swing states, providing the popular vote margins in the Presidential elections 1960, 1968 and 1976. During this era, several Republican candidates expressed support for states' rights, which critics have argued was intended as a signal of opposition to civil rights for blacks. This strategy was largely a success, and the South is now considered a Republican stronghold.
Recently, the term has been used in a more general sense, in which cultural themes are used in an election � primarily but not exclusively in the American South. In the past, phases such as "busing" or "law and order," or "states rights" were used. Today appeals largely focus on cultural issues like gay marriage, abortion, and religion. Yet, the use of the term, and its meaning and implication, are still hotly disputed. |
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ihaveseoul2
Joined: 28 Jan 2006
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| Posted: Sat May 13, 2006 3:31 pm Post subject: |
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I wonder what Saddam's approval rating was like pre-war....
Damnit.. maybe the world should unite... and go and deal with that Bush problem in the US because 'the evil Americans' seem to ignore it. |
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tomato
Joined: 31 Jan 2003
Location: I get so little foreign language experience, I must be in Koreatown, Los Angeles.
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Too bad he's not eligible for re-election.
I would love to see him get defeated by a landslide. |
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TheUrbanMyth
Joined: 28 Jan 2003
Location: Retired
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| Posted: Sat May 13, 2006 7:06 pm Post subject: |
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Too bad he's not eligible for re-election.
I would love to see him get defeated by a landslide. |
Funny enough, people were predicting that after his first term. Not only did he not lose by a landslide he won the popular vote by more than 4 million. |
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Joo Rip Gwa Rhhee
Joined: 25 May 2003
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| Posted: Sat May 13, 2006 9:07 pm Post subject: |
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| tomato wrote: |
Too bad he's not eligible for re-election.
I would love to see him get defeated by a landslide. |
The Republicans lose big in 2006 elections , then they turn to John McCain to save them and they keep the white house in 2008 . Condi Rice for vice president and Joe Liberman for Secretary of State. |
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igotthisguitar
Joined: 08 Apr 2003
Location: South Korea (Permanent Vacation)
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| Posted: Sat May 13, 2006 10:41 pm Post subject: |
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| tomato wrote: |
Too bad he's not eligible for re-election.
I would love to see him get defeated by a landslide. |
Who? Bush or Saddam?  |
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vandyshannon
Joined: 30 Apr 2006
Location: Jeonju
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| Posted: Sun May 14, 2006 1:47 am Post subject: |
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| I think Republicans end up winning a lot of times because the tons of people who don't support Bush won't vote. The Republicans seem to be better at mobilizing their base to the polls. That's why Bush won the popular vote in '04. |
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Hater Depot
Joined: 29 Mar 2005
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| Posted: Sun May 14, 2006 2:11 am Post subject: |
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| In 2004 Democrats had their best base-mobilization effort of the last 20+ years. What they really need to do is to find ways to reach out to people not in their base. Often they stick their foots in their mouths and alienate people. |
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igotthisguitar
Joined: 08 Apr 2003
Location: South Korea (Permanent Vacation)
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| Posted: Sun May 14, 2006 2:58 am Post subject: |
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Bush Dips Into the 20s
May 11, 2006, 9:12 pm
President Bush�s job-approval rating has fallen to its lowest mark of his presidency, according to a new Harris Interactive poll. Of 1,003 U.S. adults surveyed in a telephone poll, 29% think Mr. Bush is doing an �excellent or pretty good� job as president, down from 35% in April and significantly lower than 43% in January. Approval ratings for Congress overall also sank, and now stand at 18%.
Roughly one-quarter of U.S. adults say �things in the country are going in the right direction,� while 69% say �things have pretty seriously gotten off on the wrong track.� This has been the trend since January, when 33% said the nation was heading in the right direction. Iraq remains a key concern for the general public, as 28% of Americans said they consider Iraq to be one of the top two most important issues the government should address, up from 23% in April. The immigration debate also prompted 16% of Americans to consider it a top issue, down from 19% last month, but still sharply higher from 4% in March.
The Harris poll comes two days after a downbeat assessement of Bush in a New York Times/CBS News poll.
The Times, in analyzing the results, said �Americans have a bleaker view of the country�s direction than at any time in more than two decades.�
http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2006/05/11/bushs-approval-ratings/ |
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igotthisguitar
Joined: 08 Apr 2003
Location: South Korea (Permanent Vacation)
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Bush Approval Rating Falls to 28%
Lowest Level So Far, in Harris Poll
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL ONLINE
April 26, 2007
President Bush's approval rating slipped to new lows in the most recent Harris Interactive survey, but he's not alone: For the first time since the series began, all of the political figures and institutions included in the survey have negative performance ratings.
Of the 1,001 American adults polled online April 20-23, only 28% had a positive view of Mr. Bush's job performance, down from 32% in February and from a high of 88% in the aftermath of the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. The current rating is his weakest showing since his inauguration.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice garnered the approval of 45% of those surveyed, down from 46% in February, and approval of Defense Secretary Robert Gates slid to 29% in the latest poll, from 32% in February.
Among other individuals included in the poll, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) saw her approval rating fall to 30% in April from 38% in February, shortly after her swearing-in as the first female House speaker. Approval for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D., Nev.) slipped to 22%, from 23% in February but up from 19% a year ago.
Those polled gave Congress an approval rating of 27%, with the Democrats as a group pulling in 35% approval, compared with 22% for Republicans.
When asked which two issues the government should address first, 30% of poll respondents said the war and 13% said Iraq. Domestic concerns rounded out the top spots, with 15% of those polled mentioning health care and 10% pointing to the economy.
Here are full results of the poll ...
http://online.wsj.com/public/article_print/SB117752895118782401.html |
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